CURRENT ENDEAVORS
Program Manager - Spindleworks Offsite, Hallowell, ME.
Co-Founder - Doublet Design, Bath, ME
EDUCATION
2016 MFA-Design Studies, Textile & Fashion Design University of Wisconsin Madison, WI
Certificate of Material Culture-University of Wisconsin Madison, WI
2004 BFA- Painting, Maine College of Art, Portland, ME
2003 AICAD Mobility Program, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
TEACHING POSITIONS HELD
2019 Adjunct Instructor - Maine College of Art, Portland, ME
2018-19 Weaving Assistant - Nickerson Hill, Richmond, ME
2016 Teacher’s Assistant for Maria Kurutz, Apparel Construction- Design Studies, UW Madison, WI
2015 Lecturer, Print & Dye, Design Studies, Textile & Fashion Design, UW Madison, WI
2015 Instructor, Grandparents University, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
2015 Instructor, PEOPLE Program, University of Wisconsin Madison, WI
2014 Teacher’s Assistant for Carolyn Kallenborn, Machine Knitting- Design Studies, UW Madison, WI
2014 Teacher’s Assistant for Jennifer Angus, Print & Dye II- Design Studies, UW Madison, WI
2009-2013 Instructor- Textiles, Creative Growth Art Center, Oakland, CA
LECTURES AND WORKSHOPS TAUGHT
2018 Visiting Artist, Textiles and Fashion Design, Maine College of Art, Portland, ME
2016 Visiting Artist Lecture, “Doublet Design”, Wood Dept, San Diego State University, S. D., CA
2015 Visiting Artist Lecture, “Wool”, Textile and Fashion Design Dept., UW Madison, WI
2014 Visiting Artist Lecture, “7-Speak”, Madison Museum Of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI
2010 Visiting Artist Lecture & Workshop, “Thinking Caps”, Creative Growth, Oakland, CA
2009 Visiting Artist Lecture, San Francisco State University, Fibers Dept., S.F., CA
2008 Visiting Artist Lecture, Cabrillo Community College, Aptos, CA
RESIDENCIES, HONORS AND AWARDS
2017 Kindling Fund Grant, SPACE Gallery, Portland, ME
2016 Windgate Artist in Residence, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA
2016 Design Studies Scholarship, School of Human Ecology, UW Madison, WI
2015 Design Studies Scholarship, School of Human Ecology, UW Madison, WI
2014 Travel Scholarship, School Of Human Ecology Graduate Conference, UW Madison, WI
Honorable Mention, Design 2014 Annual Juried Show, Ruth Davis Design Gallery, Madison. WI
Summertime Research Grant, STAR AWARD, UW Madison, WI
2013 Textile Artist Residency, NIAD, Richmond, CA
Steenbock Scholarship Award, UW Madison, , Madison, WI
2011 Artist in Residence, The Quimby Colony, Portland, ME
Belvedere Fund for Professional Development Scholarship, MECA, Portland, ME
COMMISIONS/COLLABORATIONS
2017 Designer, Stillness(17), Sheepscot, ME Designed and created costumes for performance
2014 Designer, University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI
Designed 12 Commencement Flags, representing each college/school in the University (Collaboration with Emily Lou Adams)
2010-2014 Designer, Fibershed Project, Oakland, CA
Created two custom tailored jackets made out of an entire felted alpaca fleece and locally milled and woven color grown cotton. http://www.fibershed.com/
2010 Designer, Outstanding in the Field, Santa Cruz, CA
Designed custom pouches for all serving platters to safely provide storage for on the road travel.
2009 Costume Designer, East Bay Center for the Performing Arts, Richmond, CA Designed and constructed costumes and accessories for spring performance.
2005 Designer, Portland Public Library, Portland, ME
Created custom bags for each art piece in the "Check It Out" exhibition. Art pieces could be checked out of the library and borrowed for the duration of a library book.
REVIEWS
Surface Design Association, “Emerging Artist Award”, Winter 2017, Pages 38-41
Berkovich, Sarah, “Fibershed” Documentary Film, Premiered at Santa Cruz Film Festival November 7-10, 2013
“Textile for Fashion: Sourcing and Selection,” AVA Publishing, London. July 2013 (Educational Resource Book)
Clark, Kathryn, “Noticed: Fibershed, a revolution in fiber,” Handful of Salt Bloghttp://www.handfulofsalt.com/noticed-fibershed-a-revolution-in-fiber/
“The Beauty of Limitation,” Fibershed Blog, http://www.fibershed.com/2011/03/02/the-beauty-of-limitation/ March 2, 2011
Brown, Karen, The Challenges and Rewards of Local Production, Etsy Blog Australia, March 14, 2012 https://blog.etsy.com/au/2012/03/14/the-challenges-and-rewards-of-local-production/
Ojjala, Leena, “The Fibershed Project: Constructing Capability,” The Greenstylist, November 9, 2011 http://www.thegreenstylist.com/2011/11/the-fibershed-project-constructing-capability/
Lui, Claire, “A year of dressing locally,” Garden Design http://www.gardendesign.com/a-year-of-dressing-locally
Greenaway, Twilight, “Dressing Locally, Thinking Globally,” The Bay Citizen, California, January 7, 2011
http://www.baycitizen.org/fashion/story/dressing-locally-thinking-globally/
Martha Stewart Living, Number 230, “Our Finds”, January 2013, pg. 23-25
Handwoven, “Weaving Local”, January/February 2013, pg. 10-11
SCHOLARLY ARTICLES
Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection Newsletter 2015, “Thinking About Tools”, pg. 12
EXHIBITIONS
2020 Woven Archives, New Systems Gallery, Portland, ME (solo show)
2019 Tools for Living, Caleb Johnson Studios, Portland, ME
Terrain Biennial, Portland, ME
2018 The Lost Art of Handiwork, Museum LA, Lewiston, ME
2017 Surface Design Association’s 2017 Exhibition In Print, Winter Edition
2016 Two Mobile Galleries, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA
Four Rooms, Institute for American Art, Summer Project Space, Portland, ME
Design MMOCA 2016, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI
Thesis Exhibition, The Ruth Davis Design Gallery, Madison, WI
Graduate Showcase, The Ruth Davis Design Gallery, Madison, WI
2015 Miniature Textile Exhibition, DOWNTOWN Gallery, Kent State University, Kent, OH
A Proposal For Use, Commonwealth Gallery, Madison, WI
Graduate Showcase, The Ruth Davis Design Gallery, Madison, WI
2014 Convergence, Gallery 7, Madison, WI
Dimensions Variable, Life Technologies Inc. Madison, WI
Remix Fashion Show 2014, School of Human Ecology UW Madison, WI
Design 2014: Annual Juried Show, Ruth Davis Design Gallery, Madison, WI
2004 MECA Painters: Ten Years Later, June Fitzpatrick Gallery, Portland, ME
2013 Here and Now, Design Studies MFA Candidates, Gallery 7, Madison, WI
Maine: Four Seasons in a Day, The Maine College of Art, Portland, ME
2012 Where are you going, Where have you been?, Lewis Gallery, Portland, ME
2011 Reweaving the Community Cloth, Toby's Feed Barn, Marin, CA
Staff: "OutsideIn", Creative Growth Gallery, Oakland, CA
2009 Tendril, Rock, Paper, Scissors, Oakland, CA
Tendril, WELL Gallery, Oakland, CA
2007-2008 Annual Spring Show, 17th Ave. Studios, Santa Cruz, CA
2005 Check It Out!, South Portland Public Library, South Portland, ME
Annual Members Show, Santa Cruz Art League, Santa Cruz, CA
2004 Biennial Juried Exhibition, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME